In the hours before a 1-year-old girl was rushed unresponsive to a local hospital, a neighbor says she heard her crying and gasping while in the care of a nanny now accused in the baby's death, according to court documents obtained by Team 5 investigates.

Aisling McCarthy Brady, 34, of Quincy, was ordered held on $500,000 bail at her arraignment in Cambridge District Court. Since the baby died, charges are expected to be upgraded to homicide.

Cambridge police were called to a home on Ash Street on Jan. 14 for an unresponsive child, the Middlesex County District Attorney's office said.

The baby girl, identified as Rehma Sabir, was taken to Children’s Hospital in Boston. She was declared brain dead two days later and removed from life support.

According to newly-released court documents, a neighbor told police on the morning of Jan. 14, while the baby was in Brady's care, she heard the girl crying loudly at 8:30 a.m., and by 9:30 a.m., the baby's wails had intensified and she was gasping.

Concerned, the neighbor told police she went to the apartment door and started knocking loudly.

"(She) went downstairs and knocked on the front door to the apartment for a minute and a half, timing the knocks and then pounds on the door in between the baby's gasping so it would be heard by someone inside," according to court documents.

The neighbor said she went back upstairs and the baby cried for about 10 more minutes.

"It started to slow and settle down before stopping completely. She did not hear the baby after 10 a.m.," according to court documents.

Emergency responders were called to the address late that afternoon.

Investigators said when they searched the family's home the day before the baby died, they found a part of the wall next to the changing table was damaged, and pieces of drywall and plaster on the floor.

"The location of the missing drywall was consistent with it being damaged by forceful contact with the corner of the changing table," according to court documents.

The day after she died, investigators discovered blood-stained diapers and wipes in the trash in the nursery, as well as blood-stained pillows and blankets in her crib.

The parents said they did not know how the wall damage happened and that it was not there before. They also could not offer any insight into how the diapers and bedding became stained with blood, according to court documents.

The baby was found to be suffering from subdural and retinal hemorrhaging, broken bones including a broken arm and leg, compression fractures of the vertebrae and cerebral swelling, according to prosecutors.

The baby also showed signs of previous injuries that had started healing, prosecutors said.

Defense attorney Melinda Thompson said Brady is innocent and the injuries may have happened during family trips to Pakistan, Saudi Arabia or London while the child was not in the nanny's care. Thompson also said the baby was diagnosed as malnourished by a doctor.

Brady, who is married without children of her own, had worked for the family for six months.

The baby's father, Sameer Sabir, studied at Harvard and MIT and developed pioneering skin-graft procedures. Her mother, Nada, is a Princeton-educated financial analyst.

Federal immigration officials told NewsCenter 5 that Brady was not in the country legally.

A day after Trevor Noah was declared the new host of "The Daily Show," complete with the blessing of the exiting Jon Stewart, graphic tweets targeting women, Jews and victims of the Ebola virus are causing a social media backlash.